The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In many cases, an economic downturn simply reveals your already existing weaknesses since they now have more impact. Product Strategy on Round A Responsibility: Founders with the leadership team Goal: Build the go-to-market playbook Toward round A you start seeing success (or it would be very hard to raise a decent A round).

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Anyone familiar with Product Management will recognize the immortal phrase ‘influence without authority.’ As a Product Manager, you’re a team player who guides product development along its chartered course, but you have to do that without being the literal captain of the ship. What Does ‘Influence’ Mean?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

By the way, while the tips here address specific challenges that product leaders face, many of them would apply to any kind of leadership position, and even to non-leadership positions, so feel free to forward it to friends who are currently on the move. and in product leadership positions there is so much of it!

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 18, 2021

Photo by John Tekeridis from Pexels When I decided to move into product management I interviewed, among other companies, for a product management role at Google. My answer was: I would develop a voice interface for the computer (it was before the smartphone era). Instead, it is all about risk management. Yes”, I said.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

It took me time to understand that I need to present myself as a product leadership coach and product strategy expert rather than a consultant. With sales-led, which is also a bad name, the model means giving each customer exactly what they want and following the money. That’s the whole reason VCs invest in startups.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Product requirements are there to help the team understand what you want to build. Whether you write them in detailed documents or share them briefly and verbally with the team, it’s easy to go directly to the bottom line and give clear instructions. For the team to be successful, they always need to see the bigger picture.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 13, 2022

Because over time, the Structured Data group (that I was Head of Product at) developed smarter, AI-based systems, that were meant to replace the back-office work or make it more efficient and create a better product catalog at the same time using things only machines can do. The superpower became a weakness. We all do it all the time.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

As a product leader who is creating this roadmap, you need to treat it as a compass and plan not only for your team and the technology team but rather as the direction that the entire company needs to go in. So, having a great platform but poor content won’t really help them. if you fail, what would you have done wrong?

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Gainsight

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

To truly excel in product management, you need to have a respect for design, an understanding of countless processes, a passion for problem-solving, excellent communication skills—the list goes on and on. Books for Product Managers. Blogs for Product Managers. Slack Groups for Product Managers. Books for Product Managers.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In one of my early career roles, I was brought into the company as a development team leader with a very specific task they wanted me to lead. With this understanding (and proof) I went to my manager and explained my line of thinking. But even if I wouldn’t have gotten the budget, at least management would know what to expect.

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Under 10 Consulting

JUNE 6, 2019

Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership. Drucker, American management consultant. In my first job in product management, I was based in DC and my developers were based in California. Product management in Marketing.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

They always need something you haven’t developed yet. Unlike what one might think, this is a really bad sign. Most of the work plan is devoted to putting off fires coming from customers and sales teams. Take the breakdown to management, get their feedback, and create alignment. And nothing else. They only know themselves.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 1, 2023

A good manager balances being involved in the details and giving their people more freedom. was the first product manager I ever hired. A brilliant guy, with many years of tech leadership experience, but none in product management. When I hired him I already had a lot of experience in people management.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

If you manage AI products, the answer is probably “many”. AI product management is a unique beast that can be quite challenging, but there are ways to make it easier. Photo by Skitterphoto from Pexels In 2014, at the ProductX conference, I won second place for my presentation on time management for busy product managers.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 17, 2023

It didn’t mean that there was no competition (which is usually a very bad sign), but that the traditional search engines weren’t it. In-House Development If you are selling to technical teams, this is a major competitor. It would be the list of “usual suspects” when talking about the e-commerce search space.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2021

Product management is such a busy job. In our sessions, they raise the challenges that they are facing in their day-to-day job and get my advice so that they can bring their product leadership to the next level. One of the first topics that came up (it always does) is time management. It was aligned with my management style?—?I

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UX Studio

MAY 29, 2018

But team building retreats can do exactly that. Every six months, our whole UX team travels to a remote location in Hungary’s countryside for two days to have fun and decide together about our big goals. These team building retreats play an important part in UX studio’s culture. Do a retreat when your team has lost its energy.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 19, 2021

Lastly, there is an overlap with the product manager role. The following interview questions are neither suited nor intended to turn an inexperienced interviewer into an agile software development expert. Spoiler alert: they aren’t identical.) How much time should you spend on Product Backlog refinement?

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 12, 2020

Bigger – it speaks to every aspect of the software development process. ” A case in point: if you search the Shape Up ebook for “agile,” you get one lonely match (in Jason Fried’s Foreword ): Likewise, just one match if you search for “scrum” and “methodology.” Big as in a 143 page PDF.

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Revulytics

AUGUST 8, 2019

Revulytics sponsors a series of Product Management Today webinars featuring innovative ideas from top software product management thought leaders. In his webinar, Maybe We Should Be Problem Managers Instead , he explains how to redefine product management to focus tightly on the value only you can add. Where do I start?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Product managers need to be creative. Photo by Rodolfo Clix from Pexels When I first decided to move into product management, I also decided to interview at Google. Photo by Rodolfo Clix from Pexels When I first decided to move into product management, I also decided to interview at Google. it probably wasn’t such a bad one.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 2, 2022

for good and bad. Management and Coaching Anyone who has read ‘Inspired’ knows that Marty is a big believer in coaching. primarily focused on product teams, helping them be great at the discovery work that is at the heart of what they do Leadership coaching? Great people still need to be managed.

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Userzoom

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The team that I work in has enabled democratization of testing at over 500 organizations around the world. The first one is that it reduces risk of launching bad product. The second is that it ends debates within product teams. And there’s not that many teams out there. Two other reasons to listen to me.

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